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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Annona

Ăn-nō'na, n.

noun

n. [Lat., from annus, year.]

  1. A year's production or increase; hence, provisions for a year's subsistence.
  2. (Rom. Hist.) A contribution or tax, payable in corn, imposed on some of the more fertile provinces. Brande.

A-nō'na, n.

noun

(Synop., § 130), n. [From the Malay name manoa and menona.] (Bot.) A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the nat. ord. Anonaceæ, including the sour-sop. Eng. Cyc.

An illustration of a sour-sop fruit, shown cut open with its textured flesh and seeds.
Sour-sop (Anona muricata).